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We are one of the communities that defines New York City. We have been been part of the U.S.A. since 1898, and American citizens for over 100 years. It’s changing now, but the Great Migration of the 1950s made us NYC’s biggest Latin community. As trailblazers, we opened doors for other Latin communities to follow.

New York Latin Culture Magazine is produced from the road – currently Santurce, PR. Somos bomberos, pleneros y salseros: Boricua orgulloso! 🇵🇷

Puerto Rican Culture

A unique blend of Indigenous Taíno & Carib, African Diaspora, Spanish and U.S. traditions.

Puerto Rican Festivals

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New York Puerto Rican Culture

December 2022

Daddy Yankee La Ultima Vuelta World Tour brings Puerto Rican Trap and Reggaeton to Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on Thursday, December 8, 2022 at 8pm. From $96. 🇵🇷

November 2022

November is Puerto Rican Heritage Month and Native American Heritage Month. 🇵🇷

International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival is November 9-13, 2022. 🇵🇷

Marc Anthony Viviendo Tour brings Puerto Rican Salsa to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn on Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 8pm. From $67. 🇵🇷

Miguel Zenón plays Jazz with Matt Mitchell, Dan Weiss and Chris Tordini at The Stone in the New School Glass Box Theatre in Greenwich Village, Manhattan on Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 8:30pm (8pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷

THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
Eddie Palmieri plays Latin Jazz at the Blue Note in Greenwich Village, Tuesday-Sunday, November 22-27, 2022 at 8 & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $40. 🇵🇷

Puerto Rican Christmas celebrations start on Thanksgiving. ¡WEPA! 🇵🇷

October 2022

El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico celebrates 60 years of Puerto Rican Salsa at Kupferberg Center at Queens College in Flushing, Queens on Friday, October 7, 2022 at 8pm. From $59. 🇵🇷

El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico celebrates 60 years of Puerto Rican Salsa at New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 8pm. From $49. 🇵🇷

Puerto Rican saxophonist Miguel Zenón joins Dan Weiss with Yasushi Nakaumra at the Nublu Jazz Festival at Nublu 151 on Wednesday, October 12, 2022, around midnight. (Doors 10pm). $23. 🇵🇷

Spanish Harlem Orchestra leader Oscar Hernández is a special honoree at the Cielo Gala celebrating the work of the Latino Commission on AIDS, at Cipriani Wall Street on Friday, October 14, 2022. From $850. 🇵🇷

Gilberto Santa Rosa sings Puerto Rican Salsa at NYCB Theatre at Westbury in Westbury, Nassau County, Long Island on Friday, October 14, 2022 at 8pm. From $56. 🇵🇷

The Spanish Harlem Orchestra plays New York Salsa for dancing at the West Gate Lounge at the West Gate Inn in Nyack, Rockland County, New York on Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 8pm. [This is a small town hotel ballroom. Should be classic. Nyack is cool. It’s on the west bank of the Tappen Zee Bridge, opposite Tarrytown.] 🇵🇷

September 2022

The 20th New York Salsa Congress 2022 is at the NY Marriot Marquis in Times Square, Labor Day Weekend, Friday-Sunday, September 2-4, 2022 with an opening party at Cafe Iguana on Thursday, September 1, and a closing party at Latin Mondays at Taj with Talia Castro on Monday, September 5, 2022. 🇵🇷

OPENING RECEPTION
Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime, an art exhibition exploring the contrasts between a natural paradise, tourism and finance, opens with a reception at Americas Society in the Upper East Side, on Wednesday, September 7, 2022 from 6-8pm. Ends December 17, 2022. Reception free with RSVP. 🇧🇸🇩🇴🇯🇲🇲🇶🇵🇷🇹🇹

OPENING RECEPTION
Brianna Bass & Ivelisse Jiménez: Image Schema opens with a reception at Latchkey Gallery in the Lower East Side, on Wednesday, September 7, 2022 from 6-8pm. Jiménez is a Puerto Rican installation artist. Ends October 23. latchkey-gallery.com 🇵🇷

Taína Cruz: Woodland Sermon, the Puerto Rican artist’s first New York solo exhibition, is at Housing on 191 Henry St in the Lower East Side, September 7 – October 23, 2022. housing-art.info 🇵🇷

Daddy Yankee La Ultima Vuelta World Tour brings Puerto Rican Trap and Reggaeton to Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 8pm. From $116. 🇵🇷

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, a celebration of the Americas, through October 15. 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇶🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪

OPENING RECEPTION
Juan Sánchez: Ricanstructions Condiciones Que Existen has a reception for the important Puerto Rican artist at Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary in the Upper East Side on September 15, 2022 from 5-8pm. Ends November 4. 🇵🇷

Eddie Palmieri plays Puerto Rican Salsa at Lehman Center in Jerome Park, The Bronx on Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 8pm. 🇵🇷

Daddy Yankee La Ultima Vuelta World Tour brings Puerto Rican Trap and Reggaeton to Madison Square Garden in Chelsea on Tuesday, September 20 at 8pm (7pm doors). 🇵🇷

The New York City Ballet Fall 2022 Season features Balanchine, Robbins, Ratmansky, Peck, and premieres by Reisen and Abraham at the David H Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, September 20 – October 16, 2022. From $38. 🇧🇷🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇸

Miguel Zenón plays Jazz with Matt Mitchell & Dan Weiss at The Stone in the New School Glass Box Theatre in Greenwich Village, Manhattan on Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 8:30pm (8pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷

Miguel Zenón plays Jazz with Anthony Tidd’s Quite Sane at the Jazz Gallery in NoMad, Manhattan on Friday, September 23, 2022 at 7:30 & 9:30pm. $30. 🇵🇷

Maelo Ruiz sings Salsa Romántica at Sabor Latino in Elmhurst, Queens on Saturday, September 24, 2022 after midnight (10pm doors). From $64. 🇵🇷

The Queens Hispanic Parade 2022 marches on 37th Avenue from 69th St to 86th St in Jackson Heights, Queens on Sunday, September 25, 2022 starting at 11am. 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇸🇻🇬🇶🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇾🇵🇪🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾🇻🇪

August 2022

SummerStage presents Chilean French Rapper Ana Tijoux with the Colombian Meridian Brothers playing Latin Alternative and Puerto Rican Panamanian DJ Bembona at Corporal Thompson Park in Staten Island, on Saturday, August 6, 2022 from 5-8pm. Free.  🇨🇱🇫🇷|🇨🇴|🇵🇷🇵🇦

SummerStage presents Tony Vega and George Lamond playing Puerto Rican Salsa with support from Bronx DJ collective Uptown Vinyl Supreme at Crotona Park in The Bronx on Thursday, August 11, 2022 from 6-9pm. Free. 🇵🇷

The CCCADI’s 4th AfriBembé Festival: Sankofa! is at Harlem Art Park and on East 120th St in “El Barrio” East Harlem on Saturday, August 13, 2022 from 11:30am – 7pm. Free. afribembe.com 🌍🇧🇷🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇬🇳🇭🇹🇵🇷

Miguel Zenón Quartet plays Jazz at The Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village, Tue-Sun, Aug 23-28, 2022. $40. 🇵🇷

Bad Bunny World’s Hottest Tour of Latin Trap and Reggaeton is at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx on Saturday-Sunday, August 27-28, 2022 at 7pm. From $185. 🇵🇷

Salsa Stories Sound of Light Edition South Bronx is at the Open Street on Kelly St (between Ave St John & Legget Ave) in Longwood, The Bronx, on Friday, August 26 | September 2, 9, 16 & 30 | October 7 and 14, 2022, from 6-8pm. Free. 🇧🇷🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇦🇵🇪🇵🇷🇻🇪🗽

Salsa Stories Sound of Light Edition East Harlem is at the Open Street on East 115th St (between First Ave & Pleasant Ave) in “El Barrio” East Harlem, on Saturday, August 27 | September 3, 10, 17 & 24 | October 1, 8 & 15, 2022, from 5-7pm. Free. 🇧🇷🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇦🇵🇪🇵🇷🇻🇪🗽

Salsa Stories Sound of Light Edition Lower East Side is at the Open Street in front of The Clemente on Suffolk St (between Rivington & Delancey) in “Loisaida” the Lower East Side, on Sunday, August 28 | September 4, 11, 18 & 25 | October 2, 9 & 16, 2022, from 3-6pm. Free. 🇧🇷🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇦🇵🇪🇵🇷🇻🇪🗽

The Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band plays Jazz for Jazzmobile at Grant’s Tomb in Riverside Park in Morningside Heights, Manhattan on Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 7pm. Free. 🇵🇷

The Emmet Cohen Trio featuring Miguel Zenon plays Jazz at Birdland Jazz Club on Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 7pm & 9:30pm. From $30. 🇵🇷

July 2022

Puerto Rican Power, Domingo Quiñones and Lower East Salsa play Puerto Rican Salsa for SummerStage at the Coney Island Amphitheater in Coney Island, Brooklyn on Sunday, July 10, 2022 at 7pm (6pm doors). Free. 🇵🇷

June 2022

New York Puerto Rico Week is the 2nd week of June. 🇵🇷

The 116th Street Festival 2022 is back in El Barrio East Harlem on Saturday, June 11, 2022 from 10am – 5pm. Free. 🇵🇷

The 2022 New York Salsa Festival is at Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 8pm. From $71. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇳🇮🇵🇷🇻🇪

The 65th National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2022 is back on Fifth Avenue in Midtown and the Upper East Side on Sun, Jun 12 at 11am. 🇵🇷

May 2022

Midtown Dance 2022, hosted by Talia Castro-Pozo, offers free Salsa dance lessons and dancing outdoors in Greeley Square Park near Herald Square, most Summer Tuesdays and Thursdays from May 19 to July 28, 2022. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇦🇵🇪🇵🇷🇻🇪🗽

New York Puerto Rican celebrations start Memorial Day Weekend. 🇵🇷

The BIG Salsa Festival NYC 2022 is a Salsa and Bachata dance festival at the New York Hilton Midtown over Memorial Day Weekend, Thu-Mon, May 26-30, 2022. From $60. Passes from $250. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷

152nd Street Festival is Memorial Day Weekend Saturday. 🇵🇷

The 35th Loisaida Festival is taking it back to our streets on Avenue C (Avenida Loisaida) in the East Village, rain or shine, on Sunday, May 29, 2022 from 12-5pm. loisaida.org 🇧🇷🇨🇺🇵🇷

January 2022

Three Kings Day is January 6. 🇵🇷

El Museo Three Kings Day Parade is around Jan 6. 🇵🇷

#AdalWasHere

Adál Maldonado "Coconauts in Space" 2016 (courtesy the artist)
Adál Maldonado “Coconauts in Space” 2016 (courtesy Maldonado Estate, Roberto Paradise) #AdalWasHere

To our Padrino Borinqueño, the Nuyorican surrealist photographer and first Puerto Rican on the moon, Adál Maldonado. [Adál taught legendary NYC photographer Robert Mapplethorpe to develop and print.]:

Adál, we haven’t stopped laughing since we met you at that bookstore in Santurce. Your “El Puerto Rican Passport” made us citizens, and you introduced us to la cultura Borinqueña.

You got us laughing in Spanglish, then you disappeared. But we know you’ve been kidnapped by aliens again, and are using “alien technology” to plante la bandera bonita all across the universe.

We smile every time we see the beautiful flag because we know you’ve been around. Gracias Padrino. robertoparadise.com #AdalWasHere 🇵🇷

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